1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Before a story is told routinely, the story-teller must introspect if it’s still creating the similar self-impact, most of the stories never touch the listener’s emotional chord because of their emotionless recital. The Sales pitch is nothing but storytelling, make it interesting for yourself before expecting others to pay attention.

Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong-footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an old snakeskin. Its marks, its scars, its wounds from old wars and the walking backwards days all fell away. In its absence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain to see as the water in a river or the sun in the sky. As plain to feel as the heat on a hot day, or the tug of a fish on a taut line. So obvious that no one noticed.

The arrows in the glasses disappeared. I stopped on the embankment. My eyes were filled with tears. I wiped my tears with a white handkerchief and threw it into the Rhine. The handkerchief was carried away as was my last hope for peace . . .

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other.